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AI has failed on many promises. With the ensuing scepticism of artificial intelligence, we are faced with a choice: choose to become too cynical and sit on the sidelines and wait for a winner, or find a way to filter the noise and identify business breakthroughs early enough to participate in this historic economy among […]

Investments in plant-based alternatives to meat have a huge impact on emissions due to the large difference between the greenhouse gases emitted when producing conventional meat and dairy products and when growing plants. For example, beef emits 6 to 30 times more than tofu. Investments in alternative proteins such as fermented products and cellular meats

Kingsoft WPS official Weibo issued a statement , “A recent online document link shared by a user is suspected of violating the law, and we have prohibited others from accessing the link in accordance with the law. This matter was falsely spread as #WPS# to delete the user’s local file. For this reason, we specially

An author of a web article posted on Long’s Sky Forum, claiming that the web article he wrote was locked by Kingsoft Office Software WPS. The author claims to be a member of WPS. WPS is free software but will display advertisements and many functions need to be opened and paid for by members. The

Mexico’s president has introduced a bill to end daylight saving time , ending the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Health Minister Jorge Alcocer said Mexico should return to God’s clock or standard time, arguing that turning the clock back or forward would damage health. Mexico switched to daylight saving time in 1996, a

Microsoft updated its App Store rules last month to include a “don’t try to profit from open source or other software that is usually available for free, and don’t try to overprice the features and functionality a product offers.” Microsoft’s original intentions are believed to be well-intentioned, to curb the practice of repackaging free open

The surface road and rail transport network is increasingly congested, so why not make full use of the underground? The Swiss company Cargo Sous Terrain has proposed an underground freight pipeline concept that uses automated minivans to move goods between cities and logistics centers. This might have sounded like a fantasy a few years ago,

In response to malicious programs such as ransomware, Microsoft earlier this year announced plans to change the way MS Office handles macros: If a file uses a macro command downloaded from the Internet, macros will be disabled entirely by default. The change will first be available to Office v2203 users as a preview starting April

Google has made concessions in an attempt to block a potential antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. government against its sprawling ad-tech business. Under a proposal, Google proposed to spin off part of its business of auctioning and placing ads for websites and apps into a separate company under Alphabet. The entity could be valued in

Elon Musk on Friday terminated an agreement to buy Twitter , and Twitter’s chairman promised to go to court. In a letter to Twitter’s general counsel, Musk said he terminated the agreement because Twitter was unwilling to share the requested information with him, and that the information that had been shared confirmed his view that

In animal experiments in mice and monkeys, a new nanoparticle vaccine protects against multiple SARS-like viruses , including variants of the new coronavirus. The research report was published in the journal Science. Vaccines are based on caged nanoparticle technology, constructed of proteins with sticky appendages on the surface that can be used to label viral

Publishers and content providers often remove content due to the expiration of the agreement. What should the publishers who previously purchased related products deal with? In Valve’s PC game platform Steam, the removed games will still remain in the player’s game library, you can download or continue the game, and the store page corresponding to

The price of memory chips used in nearly every electronic device has skyrocketed during the pandemic. But judging by how much memory chip prices have fallen now, the demand boom may be over . Average contract prices for DRAM fell 10.6% in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, the first year-over-year decline in two